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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: billythekidrock on March 30, 2009, 05:47:22 PM

Title: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: billythekidrock on March 30, 2009, 05:47:22 PM: It is only about 6 weeks before we should start seeing newborn fawns which is good news for spring bear hunters.

Post when (date), where (County), type (BT, WT, MD) and how many.
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: robodad on April 09, 2009, 09:09:36 AM: Just curious how this information is usefull ??
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Post by: Alan K on April 09, 2009, 09:10:48 AM: To know where the bears will be out and about in search of freshly dropped fawns I'd assume. That's what I'd use it for.
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: billythekidrock on April 09, 2009, 05:58:44 PM: Quote from: Alan K on April 09, 2009, 09:10:48 AM
To know where the bears will be out and about in search of freshly dropped fawns I'd assume. That's what I'd use it for.

Exactly.

They typically all drop within a week or so but it is good to know when they start. It is also usefull for photographers. Nothing cooler looking then a spotted fawn in the bright green grass.
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: Cascade_Sherpa on April 11, 2009, 09:57:16 AM: I've seen statistics from the RMEF that said that although coyotes are constantly villianized for fawn mortality, bears contribute just as much to killing and eating newly dropped fawns. Personally I'd like to see the WDFW expand the amount of spring bear tags.
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: Kain on April 18, 2009, 09:53:42 PM: Made it up to the woods today and didnt see any fawns. I saw about six does but they didnt even look pregnant. :dunno: Maybe it will be a late fawning season down here.
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: stumprat on April 18, 2009, 09:58:03 PM: Quote from: Cascade_Sherpa on April 11, 2009, 09:57:16 AM
I've seen statistics from the RMEF that said that although coyotes are constantly villianized for fawn mortality, bears contribute just as much to killing and eating newly dropped fawns. Personally I'd like to see the WDFW expand the amount of spring bear tags.

Bears are hell on fawns. And with our Game Dept's agenda for future of bear hunting it will get alot worse. We need to make as much noise, and inundate them with letters to keep a boot hunt in August for 2010, and 2011.
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: scroder on May 07, 2009, 05:21:41 PM: Lewis county, black tail, one fawn 5-7-09 I was at work so I did not have my camera with me but I'll take it tommorrow and try to get a pic. I work at a wastewater treatment plant that is located on a 300 plus acre farm, we've got a bunch of deer that always hang around.
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Post by: Huntbear on May 10, 2009, 09:07:55 PM: The does here around my brother's place (up on the hill above Castle Rock) are very pregnant, but no new fawns yet.
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Post by: backwoods_boy on May 10, 2009, 09:50:35 PM: 2 BT Everyday in my parents back yard.....ha ha ha
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Post by: JBar on May 12, 2009, 07:04:52 PM: Seen a doe with a fawn out in Graham today, cute little bugger wish I had my camera.
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Post by: Wayne1 on May 12, 2009, 07:15:36 PM: we generally don't start seeing them untill the first cutting of Alfalfa...The bailers get alot of the one's yote's and bear miss.. :(
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: Huntbear on May 27, 2009, 01:40:00 PM: Saw our first newborn this morning. Cute little spotted bugger could hardly walk and keep up with momma. :chuckle: Was not fast enough to the camera, :bash: will get a pic in the next day or two, I am positive.
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: billythekidrock on May 31, 2009, 12:58:13 PM: Blacktail fawn in Capitol Forest, Thurston County. Sunday 5-31-09

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hunt101.com%2Fdata%2F500%2Fmedium%2FwebIMG_6092.jpg&hash=5a48ea794a3b1b3b25341c7761b4ed2acaf3dd86)

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hunt101.com%2Fdata%2F500%2Fmedium%2FwebIMG_6091.jpg&hash=0b552f556fbfecbeec73f90f2bb737bfab756321)
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Post by: bobcat on May 31, 2009, 02:28:27 PM: Awesome. Love that picture!
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Post by: bowhunterforever on June 02, 2009, 09:42:22 PM: 6-2-09, Mule deer fawn probably 2 or 3 days old
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Post by: Ray on June 07, 2009, 09:07:56 AM: Saw a blacktail fawn with mother yesterday morning. Less than a week old.
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Post by: mossback91 on June 07, 2009, 10:04:13 AM: Saw twin Mule deer fawns yesterday couldnt be more than a couple days old. 6-6-09 Okanogan County
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Post by: Kain on June 08, 2009, 03:55:39 PM: Saw a blacktail fawn 6-6-09. No momma around dont know if it will be around much longer. Lewis River unit.
Pics and story here.
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,28251.0.html
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: bowhunterforever on June 10, 2009, 03:04:30 PM: Mule deer fawn 6-9-09 a week old or so. I have yet to see a whitetail fawn hope in a few days or so.
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: Curly on June 10, 2009, 03:17:36 PM: We have twin fawns in our yard. I haven't seen them yet myself but my neighbor came over yesterday and said she saw them in our yard yesterday. I think the mother dropped them sometime last weekend. She was acting strange last Sunday.
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: Ridgeratt on June 15, 2009, 07:17:52 PM: Went and mowed the lawn last weekend and had a doe hanging out in the pasture Sat. Evening . Sunday morning she was real nervous and laid down about 30 feet from the gate and a hour later she was up tending to something about half hour later there was a set of wobbly legs in the grass behind her!!
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: billythekidrock on June 15, 2009, 07:49:34 PM: Ridgeratt - And no pics? :bash:
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Post by: wildwood on June 15, 2009, 07:50:07 PM: I had a fawn in my field this morning looked about a week old i live in tenino
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: Ridgeratt on June 15, 2009, 07:55:03 PM: No I just left her ans the new one alone! I'll get out a homebrew in the next week or so. Usually I get a couple of does with fawns in the yard every year. (perhaps they are kin of the bucks that visited Knock Down Sally) Not sure how to link that old post
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: bobcat on June 15, 2009, 08:02:23 PM: I saw a doe with two newly born fawns standing alongside I-5 this morning, just north of Centralia.
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: Ridgeratt on June 15, 2009, 08:12:03 PM: I just left her and the new one alone. Will get out a homebrew in a week or so. Usually get a couple every year have one doe that has always thrown twins so she should show up soon.

Here's a couple of old photos from 2005
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: bearpaw on June 16, 2009, 09:13:43 AM: Funny, the fawns are just being born over here in the last week or so....seasonal differences....

I was fast asleep two nights ago and BANG...BANG....BANG...I awoke to someone banging on the front door. I slipped to a window to see who was at the door at 2:30 AM.

There was some young girl (16ish) standing there....so I opened the door to see what was wrong....she said they were turning around in our driveway and saw a baby fawn laying there in the middle of the road, it couldn't get up, and they didn't want it to get eaten by something, so they picked it up and brought it up to my house to get help.....WTF.....but i was nice, I explained the momma deer probably just had it and then jumped out of sight when their headlights turned in the driveway....after some more explaining I convinced them to put it back exactly where they found it and leave it for the mom to find....in the morning my son searched the area....sure enough it appears the doe came back and got her fawn.

Sorry I was half awake and did not think to take a photo,
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: bowhunterforever on June 17, 2009, 12:24:07 AM: 6-16-09 2 differnt mule deer does. One had twin fawns and the other a single fawn, all of them were probaly a couple weeks old
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: Cylvertip on June 17, 2009, 08:49:43 PM: Doe and Fawn this morning on the outskirts of Granite. A week old or less.
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Post by: littlebuf on June 17, 2009, 08:53:54 PM: do calf elk count because i saw one of those last Thursday, still no fawns and im kinda surprised by that. saw a doe on Sunday that looked like she could barely walk
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: bowhunterforever on June 23, 2009, 02:00:03 PM: 6-20-09 whitetail doe twin fawns
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: Curly on June 23, 2009, 02:37:18 PM: Quote from: Curly on June 10, 2009, 03:17:36 PM
We have twin fawns in our yard. I haven't seen them yet myself but my neighbor came over yesterday and said she saw them in our yard yesterday. I think the mother dropped them sometime last weekend. She was acting strange last Sunday.

I think one of the fawns is not around anymore. :( I've seen the mother w/ one fawn a couple times now. The neighbors haven't seen the twins together lately either. I haven't had the camera with me when I've seen the fawn.
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: Gobble on June 23, 2009, 02:55:26 PM: I'm talking to my wife on the phone and she just passed a doe with 2 fawns
Title: Re: 2009 Fawn Watch
Post by: littlebuf on June 23, 2009, 05:59:15 PM: well im gunna keep reporting the calves because i haven't seen a fawn yet, two more today behind the state school in buckley and one of the cows had a radio collar on